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Copying this from earlier in the thread.

The problem is the numbers.

There are approximately 120,000 housing units in Arlington County (there's 320,000 in DC). How many more do you think realistically can be added? Over the past decade, the number of housing units in Arlington has grown by 14 percent. Let's be very generous and say over the next decade it doubles that rate and grows by 28 percent, which would mean adding 33,000 units, which let's say could accommodate 100,000 people.

Most people would probably agree Arlington is a good place to live. The schools are good, crime is low, it's an easy commute, there's lot of things to do. The main problem is that it's expensive (for precisely all of those reasons).

You don't think there's 100,000 people who'd happily move to Arlington if prices came down? That's 1.6 percent of the 6.2 million people in the metro area.

[b]You'd run out of places to put housing before you could ever accommodate everyone who would move there[/b].[/quote]

No, you wouldn't. Though you might run out of places to put single-family detached houses with yards.[/quote]

We need to ban single-family homes. We should also ban three-bedroom condos, two-bedroom condos and one-bedroom condos. Only studios. I don't care if you have children. Everyone gets 450 square feet. [/quote]

No one is proposing bannign SFHs.  The proposal is to end zoning that only allows SFHs.

If there is zoning that requires large condos and bans 450 sq ft studios, that should be ended as well, I agree.

(btw why do NIMBYs always talk about condos when the majority of new multifamily housing is rentals?) [/quote]

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